Please join us for the Third Ethnographic Film and Media Program of the Middle East and Central Eurasia of EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists)
14th EASA Biennial Conference, University of Milano-Bicocca (20-23 July, 2016)
Curator and organiser:
Dr. P. Khosronejad (Associate Director for Iranian & Persian gulf Studies, School of International Studies/ School of Media and Communication Strategy, Oklahoma State university, USA)
Program assistant:
Kamnoush Khosrovani (PhD. candidate in Anthropology, GSRL : Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, CNRS-EPHE, France)
Thursday 21 July
09:00-10:45: Film session 3:
- The Night of Infatuation, Nasser Saffarian/2015/89’/Iran
The Night of Infatuation is a vibrant musical documentary about Iranian music, history and culture throughout the 1900s. The documentary film retrospective is punctuated by the personal reflections of Iranian music critics, singers and composers.
https://vimeo.com/172295418
11:15-13:00: Film session 4:
- Salmon, Bears, Love Dances among the Itelmen on Kamchatka, Christoph Boekel/ 2015/ 44’/ Germany
As recently as the seventeenth century, the Itelmen were a population of twenty thousand, and the sole inhabitants of the southern half of Kamchatka, a large peninsula on the Pacific coast of northern Asia. The Itelmen were violently decimated in the aftermath of colonization by the Cossacks under the Russian Czar. Today, there are 1,500 Itelmen survivors – less than 1% of the Kamchatkan population. With the aid of German explorer G. W. Steller's (1709 – 1746) historic observations, they are attempting to revive parts of the ancient Itelmen culture.
- The Black Flag, Majed Neisi/2015/62’/Iraq
Shi'a Muslims all over Iraq are taking up arms to combat the spread of the Islamic State. Iranian filmmaker Majed Neisi travels to the edge of Anbar Province, to embed himself with the under-equipped but determined volunteers fighting to rescue their country from the onslaught of ISIS. Filmed in the battlefield as bullets ricochet all around, The Black Flag provides a powerful look at the Shi'a men fighting the Islamic State.
https://vimeo.com/132614027
Friday 22 July
09:00-10:45: Film session 5:
- Deux Fois Le Meme Fleuve (Same River Twice), Effi Weiss and Amir Borenstein/ 2015/ 110’/ Belgium
In 1869, John McGregor, a Scottish explorer, arrives in Palestine to explore the Jordan River. In the summer of 2011, Effi and Amir, Israelis who have been living in Europe for the past decade, set out to retrace McGregor’s steps, from the river source to the Sea of Galilee. Against the backdrop of a mythical landscape overflowing with Israeli vacationers, they take us along on a journey down the river’s path. At the same time local and foreign, they gradually transform from traveler-explorers to 'explored travelers' - as the people they meet along the way unabashedly confront them about their relationship with the land they had left. The flow of encounters, invaded landscapes and spontaneous dialogues behind the camera raise questions of kinship and ownership, proximity and distance, and expose the biographical and ideological filters that condition our connection to a place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd8VK8TSKQA
11:15-13:00: Film session 6:
- The Color of Soil, Hamed Zolfaghari/2016/ 52’/Iran
A group of young Iranian artists work round the clock to bring the island’s ecological richness to life, creating what they consider to be one of the largest soil carpets in the world. However some argue their environmental art work is hurting more than helping the environment. Every year a group of young Iranian artists, led by environmental artist Ahmad Kargaran, come together on Hormuz Island to create a world record environmental artwork: the largest soil carpet in the world. An astonishing range of colours coming from the different soils found across the island are used by the band of artists, working round the clock to bring this piece to life. However some people on the island don’t agree with their work and argue the carpet is more harmful than helpful for the environment. On an island with little financial means and an array of rare soils, this carpet could be just the event to boost the island’s ecological attractions, or destroy them.
- I Comme Iran (I For Iran), Sanaz Azari/ 2015/ 50’/Belgium
Brussels, behind the closed doors of a classroom. Using a textbook dating from the Islamic revolution, Sanaz Azari, the director, learns how to read and write in Persian, her mother tongue. Over the course of the lessons, the teacher initiates her to the basics of the language, which becomes a gateway to the history and culture of Iran. Gradually, the didactic method of the lessons evolves into a poetic, visual collage, which introduces the notion of freedom and questions the meaning of a revolution.
https://vimeo.com/96172004
Saturday 23 July
09:00-10:45: Film session 7:
The Tentmakers of Cairo (????? ?????? ?? ??????? ), Kim Beamish/ 2015/ 94’/Australia
For over three years we follow a community of artisans whose craft has remained largely untouched since Pharaonic times. They try and make sense of Egypt’s recent history, as their hands stitch incredibly detailed designs. Contrasts exist not only in the imagery where art works clash with the dirt and grime of the street, but also in the social differences, wealth and political views. The shop becomes a discussion and rhetoric free space of intergenerational transmissions of timeless knowledge; the street of the tentmakers becomes a mirror of a larger public space where we read the country’s political turmoil and the external world: a vital economic and social window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve_L_0JYHvE
11:15-13:00: Film session 8:
This was Hasankeyf, Tommaso Vitali/ 2015/ 90’/ United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey
“This was Hasankeyf” is a deep political and poetic ethnography within - and a tribute to - this small community, where beauty derides death - the last possibility to live among its citizens, where the magnetic legacy of past cultures is intertwined with the desires and sorrows that the idea of Progress respectively provokes and inflicts, one sublime day living as rural heroes, exploring the petrifying perception of loss and change.
https://vimeo.com/76297790
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Dr. Pedram Khosronejad
Farzaneh Family Scholar
Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies
School of International Studies/School of Media&Strategic Communications Oklahoma State University
201 Wes Watkins Center
Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
Phone: 405-744-6179
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
<http://www.isooksatte.edu>ieo.okstate.edu/staff.aspx?ref=6<http://ieo.okstate.edu/staff.aspx?ref=6>
| Chief Editor, Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia<http://acmejournal.org/index.php/acme>, SeanKingston.
| Series Editor, The Anthropology of Persianate Societies<http://www.seankingston.co.uk/PersianateAnth.html>, SeanKingston.
| Series Editor, Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies<http://www.lit-verlag.de/reihe/irastu>, LIT Verlag.
<http://www.isooksatte.edu>
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